NYC fashionistas are eating up these $295 food-cart tube tops: ‘Iconic’

Fashion plates: prepare to eat your heart out.

Hamburgers. Hot Dogs. Gyros. There’s a food cart with a LED marquee flashing the menu items on nearly every corner in NYC.

Now, avant-garde designer Edna St. Louis is transforming the hot lunch list into Halal-inspired haute couture.

“I wanted to make a reference to something real New Yorkers experience,” St. Louis, 26, told The Post of her $295 “Halal Cart Bandeau Top.”

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Avant-garde fashion designer Edna St. Louis has turned LED food cart signs into high-fashion togs. Courtesy Edna St. Louis

“A lot of people like the freedom of self-expression that NYC provides,” she continued. “And wearing something as out-there as that Halal Cart top is kind of like the ultimate expression of that freedom.”

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Reminiscent of the LED belt buckles that Millennials rocked during the early aughts — 2000s trendsetters often programmed the scrolling accessories to flash their names or their neighborhoods — St. Louis’ frippery is a fashionable feast for the eyes.

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